A general class of passive macromodels for lossy multiconductor transmission lines

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 49, Issue 10 I, 2001, Pages 1686-1696

  Dounavis, A ^a   Achar, R ^a   Nakhla, M ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Circuit simulation; Distributed networks; High speed interconnects; Transmission lines

Indexed keywords

MULTICONDUCTOR TRANSMISSION LINES;

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PASSIVE NETWORKS;

ELECTRIC LINES;

EID: 0035475618     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.954772     Document Type: Article

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